Saturday, February 5, 2011

Cheap healthy dinners

After all these natural disasters in Australia, I think we need to get even more creative producing cheap healthy meals. Here's tonight's meal made by Pooh, it feed 6 and had leftovers:

Salmon patties and salad

Honestly the photo does not do this meal justice! 20 Salmon patties from 1 $5 tin of salmon, spring onions and potatoes from the garden although there's 4 so not dear to buy anyway. We did another batch of sweet potatoes with rice crumbles. 10 of each sort from 1 tin.

The salad of bits and bobs. Lettuce, pine-nuts, carrot, cucumber, pepitas, celery, capsicum, tomato, walnut and linseeds. The dressing, lemon juice, olive oil, cumin and a hint of curry powder. A party in my mouth!

The salad ingredients were only small or left over parts but come together and make a large very tasty salad. Think of filling nutritious ingredients and not even huge amounts.

4 comments:

I'm always inspired by your recipes, you make me want to strive harder to feed our family for less when I see what you can do with such simple ingredients. I think it could be mindset for me. Sometimes I think it is too hard, takes too much time - when realistically it takes little time and effort - perhaps just requires a bit of organization. Thank you for the post and reminder for me :) Ps. I have a trip to the city coming up, do you recommend buying in bulk? I am thinking of doing this as there are quite a few things that I buy in smaller quantities that I could get in bulk instead (it makes sense to me to do this).

Radical Homemaker, I do buy in bulk, I'm still making my way through 20 kg of lentils :o-

Storage can be a pest, I have a store room so for me it's not a problem but a normal house often doesn't. Spices can go off and better stored in the fridge but that's a bit annoying too with the space they take up. If I'm buying bulk fruit and veg, I find it better to do a couple of things at a time. 20kg of carrots takes a long time to process so I could only manage them and one other item at any one time. A bit of a pest but I lost quite a bit in the past when I didn't get it all processed. Very sad and wasteful!

So think storage, processing even transporting is a challenge if it needs to be chilled. Good luck :o)

Hi piglet I love making salmon patties I use a tin of pink salmon woolies brand about $2.50 ish about a kilo potatoes 50 cents a kilo. finely chopped onion salt &pepper and some times I put a sprinkle or two of italian herbs and As I don't eat wheat I roll them in polenta fine ground corn meal and fry in a little extra virgin olive oil ..jusy thought I'd share my version !Sherrie from simpleliving ! We also love Quinoa we eat it a lot I buy it in bulk for $12.50 a kilo...